Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Both of YevtuYevgeny Yevtushenkonko's grandfathers were arrested during Stalin's purges as "enemies of the people" in 1937. S. ” She states that “Bratsk Station” offers the greatest insight into Soviet life of any other work in modern Russian literature.

He is also a novelist essayist dramatist screenwriter actor editor and a director of several films.